The Penn's Grove record., 1887-04-02

ter from the village cure, which / have
ventured to put into English, thus:
My dear Madam-Thanks, and yet
again thanks for your esteemed favor.
Alasl 1t is my painful duty to inform
you that my sister, Nine. Piluquesne,
whose grief for the expatriati n of my
nephew and her only OF was incessant
and inconsolable, is no more. 1t was
my melancholy privilege to administer
to her the last rites of our holy church
on the very day on which our little Paul
left us for a better inheritance.
"Sho was sleeping, and 1 staid to
watch and pray by her to the last. That
morning at the fifth hour she awoke
and started as if she had seen something
in the sunlight, which had just peeped
in to give us good morrow"
"'My boyl my boyl' she cried, Il am
eomingl Stay but a little and we will
journey together to tie promised land.
'.And so she passed away.
"I feel, / know that she had seen and
heard something which my eyes and
ears. of the earth, earthly could not
see or hear.
81 think 1t is your great poet surely
his masterpiece who says:
such harmony is in immortal souls.
But whilst this muddy yesture of decay
Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear 1t.
"Again, and yet a thousand times
again, 1 thank you for all your love and
care for our | tile Paul.
"Permit a poor priest who admires
the divine art of which mademoiselle is
SO distinguished a ornament, to pre-
sent the assurances of the profound con-
| sideration with which he vent res to
subscribe himself, mademoiselle's CRATE
full humble servant,
PAUL PHUQUEsNE, d. ID.
mile. Helene We're"
After Poor Pil's" death all kinds of
wild rumors obtained currency in the
theater. Larry swore that during the
performance of ''The maid of Paliseau'
he saw Pill in the property room arrang-
ing the birds wings. Mrs. Cassidy
declared that one Saturday night, when
| she was rather late in clearing the thea
ter, as Sunday morning dawned she saw
him, nay, more, she heard him singing
eAdeste, Fideles;'' and the poor old
soul tainted away with terror.
Certain it is that even Manly, the
manager, who was a skeptic, to Larry's
| delight withdrew the Maybe piece from
the repertory, and that Mrs. Cassidy for
the future did her cleaning the first
| thing on Saturday morning. As for
actors-well, they are more or less SUI
perstitious, and for many a year after
| that no actor could be induced to stay
in the Derby theater after midnight.
Il n.aa snInaI Iook Hnlnnau n sailor
Just returned to his native place after
the al and afflicted with a plethora OF
prize money, took a party of chums to
the gallery to see "The Stranger"
which impressed him so powerfully that
he fell fast asleep.
His friends, overtaken by Bacchus,
forgot all about him. Equally oblivious
of his presence, the servants of the
theater put out the lights, locked up and
left him to his sluinbers.
When honest Jack awoke in "the
dead waste and middle of the night he
hadn't the faintest idea where he was.
AS o as he pulled himself together
he growled; "Where are those land luL-
bers? They've all sheered off and left
me at the mast-he d while they've
crawled down below through lubber's
hole.
Al this momeht ne healu, oh .ho n
he heard, a sou VOICE speaAiiie Ii "i
unknown tongue
LOOKING Gown on Tue sIase, ne sam
IN the moonlight W zen ssreaiiep
through q lrcu opening at tne DaoA
of the gallery, a fair young boy in a
trayed aud worn foreign hayai inform;
lie had bright hair, great Diue eyes Z
an anger race, ana d uroP VI nioou
trlckling from his pale ups;
"liolu hard, young powueI unonASy,
cried JACK. I'm coming uo"n vi uoen
TO nave a Jaw WIN Q
with that, with the agility Oh cay
he DOWN the sue Oh tne gai-
lery and boxes ana ieaped upon ehe
stage,
AS ne dia SO the nguIe laueu ,i.o ~
air. VIA Win terror tie sai,ol snIieA1u
ana until he aialmou 'no nois"
Dorhood.
When they look nm OUT swooniis,
folks said that he was drunk; fefnaps
he was; Dut theh-pernaps nc Masl.s
AT any rate he swore 10 ms uying uay
that he was SOBER; ana an tne kihs
horses and al u KINGS men couiu
never induce JACK Holmes 70 cross tle
threshold OF the thsater again.
As regularly as the players came 70
Derby in the spring pine, so regularly
the oor French boys grave was Dc
decked daily with fresh MOWERS.
The years passed py, the yooa DC
manager died, the actors gre oia anu
were scattered nall oVer Ihe giope.
Soon after the "ihree Daysih Iaris'"
he who writes THESE lines Ineh q
wretched cnlld VINO hao Jus. iosn one he
nearer dearer 10 MN shan all the
world, was caseihs oonio nv"oi ~
new-made sepulcnre; wheh ne caught
sight OF a venerable anu peau.iiui W.
man clad IN the CARP OF q slste1 o. .ne
Scarce CGur engaged the saire pio9s
office at an adj cent grave; Inc Lauy
was py Cail, enin, "n,u' ~
headed old man., VINO, from MS pecuilat
dress and QemeaQOr 10 DC u